Preschool - Week 15 - The Red Carpet

This week was another fun, vintage children's story about a hotel that rolls out the red carpet for a special guest - except the carpet takes off and leads the police on a chase all around town.  We did another lapbook from homeschool share this week, throwing in a few worksheets from a workbook for variety.

We made a title page by only coloring the carpet red, like many pages in the book:

We talked about traffic signals and what each color meant.

 The police officers spent a lot of energy chasing the red carpet in the book. We talked about what police officers do in their jobs and made stickers to put together this little book:

We also added another sight word, "red":

E has been amazing me with her handwriting these days. We haven't been working on it together, but she will just copy words on her own. So I decided to add a little handwriting to our homeschool week:

The homeschoolshare lapbook kit had a map you could print out that includes the stores and path of the red carpet from the book.  I taped it inside a plastic page cover and added it to the lapbook so E can draw and "erase" her own paths through town:

Finally, I printed out a t-book template for E to make her own "red" book. She wrote the word "red" on the front and then cut out magazine pictures of red things to glue inside.

Preschool - Week 14 - The Snowy Day

After all the excitement of December, I was ready to jump back into homeschooling E with another fun week of "rowing" The Snowy Day.

While reading the story, we talked about how the artist didn't need a lot of detail to make his illustrations. We made another lapbook this week. E really enjoys this and so do I. I was thrilled to have a couple snowy days here, which we took advantage of by playing outside and doing a snow experiment.

First, we reviewed our previous sight words and added a new one: snow. 

We added a "What is White?" element to our lapbook from homeschoolshare.com:

and E colored in the title page:

We went outside to try to catch some snowflakes on our snowy day.  We talked a lot about how each one is unique and related that to how big God is to have created them all!

We went out to the deck to make tracks in the snow like the boy in the book.  (She cannot walk with her toes in or out, however! Strange...) She even found a stick to drag!

The stick worked well for writing her name in the snow:

Next for an experiment. We made two snowballs and put them into containers.  One we left on the counter and one we put into the freezer.  E predicted that the snowball on the counter would melt, but the freezer one would not.  After her rest time, she discovered that she was correct!

We also made a snowman for our lapbook, with a craft kit leftover from C's Winter Party:

We also made a paper snowflake. We had to use grown-up scissors for this, so it was a heavily "mom-supervised activity":

Lastly, I printed out a worksheet with eight animal tracks.  I also printed out the matchbook template from homeschoolshare and glued the tracks on the front. Then I printed out the eight animals' photos from Google Images and had E cut them out.  Together, we researched the animal tracks and matched the (hopefully!) correct animal to it's track:

Finished Lapbook, with felt scrapbook snowflakes glued on for decoration:

Lastly, we used the snowflake technique to make cinnamon snowflakes as a snack: